Qualcomm talks up Ikanos’ G.fast version, but it lags by a year

In a briefing held this week Qualcomm tried to steer the community into believing that its Ikanos VDSL and G.fast chip acquisition was actually “ahead” of players like Sckipio and Broadcom, with Todd Antes, VP Product Management suggesting their systems were little more than incomplete first attempts. Antes said this because his product is supposed to offer a full 1 Gbps, which is ahead of demonstrations, closer to 500 Mbps, from other rivals, and because the chip can also fall back to VDSL – a common design point in all prior DSL chips, that they can work as either one or the other. In the previous VDSL generation Broadcom was the first company to offer ADSL2+ with VDSL, falling back…